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| | 1994 charges against the Bellecourt Brothers 3 |
 | | Clyde Bellecourt has also openly supported the "Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act," which allows the United States to use a lower standard than the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in denying American Indian religious freedom, and subjects Indian religious practices to the scrutiny and whim of the Secretary of Interior. |
 | | Between 1982 and 1991, Clyde Bellecourt openly supported the collaboration of his brother, Vernon, with a settler government, to wit: the Government of Nicaragua, in the oppression, imprisonment and killing of members of the Miskito, Sumo, Rama, Garifuno and CreoIe peoples of the Atlantic Coast region of Nicaragua, known as Yapti Tasba (see Point 2. |
 | | Testimonial evidence, including their own, indicates that, as "guests" of the Nicaraguan government, Vernon and Clyde Bellecourt traveled to the Yapti Tasba region in 1981, while the Indigenous peoples of Yapti Tasba were engaged in an armed struggle to defend their rights from the Managua regime. |
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